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Exploring the Dance Inside Your Superorganism Between Your Microbiome and Human Immune System Your Body Has 10 Times As Many Microbe Cells As Human Cells Inclusion of Microbiome Will Radically Change Medicine

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When We Think About Biological Diversity We Typically Think of the Wide Range of Animals But All These Animals Are in One SubPhylum Vertebrata of the Chordata Phylum All images from Wikimedia Commons. Photos are public domain or by Trisha Shears & Richard Bartz

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Think of These Phyla of Animals When You Consider the Biodiversity of Microbes Inside You All images from WikiMedia Commons. Photos are public domain or by Dan Hershman, Michael Linnenbach, Manuae, B_cool Phylum Annelida Phylum Echinodermata Phylum Cnidaria Phylum Mollusca Phylum Arthropoda Phylum Chordata

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We Found Major Shifts in Microbial Ecology Phyla Between Healthy and Two Forms of IBD Collapse of Bacteroidetes Explosion of Proteobacteria Most Common Microbial Phyla Microbiome Dysbiosis or Mass Extinction?

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I Can Track Changes in My Microbiome Before and After 1 Month Antibiotic & 2 Month Prednisone Therapy Therapy Greatly Reduced Two Phyla, But Massive Reduction in Bacteroidetes And Large % Proteobacteria Remain Reduced 45x Reduced 90x Small Changes With No Therapy I am Trapped in a Local Ecological Equilibrium Far from Home

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Refining the Dance I Now Know Where I Am And Where I Need to Get to Startups Enable Tracking the Dance Novel Interventions Become Possible Where There is Data There is Hope